Small Thoughts

I had to do this to compare client's original agreement and the revised version. It turns out you can see all the parts of a docx file b...

UPDATE:  This post was penned before it emerged that Steve Jobs died today. While I don't plan to take this down, I should acknowledge t...

Berkshire's board has authorized the company to buy back its own shares.  Why? Because when the market is getting pummeled as it is now,...

I finally saw it. It is a war movie about Iraq. It does a good job of looking like modern warfare...and that's about it. As a movie it d...

There is a revolution in design going on and I love it. Some of the applications and services I use most, Gmail, Calendar, Amazon, Blogger, ...

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch - the blog that provides not so much the pulse of tech as the whims of Arrington - will be stepping back as ...

http://www.virginlimitededition.com/en Seriously. I clicked over there to check out the newest toy - the Necker Nymph - posted by Gizmodo....

So, first off, I understand that I should 'think horse, not zebra' on this one. But I cannot help it. The head of the IMF is capture...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/racing/08/20/montreal.nationwide.marcos.ambrose.ap/index.html?eref=si_mostpopular . Just check out t...

This was on People of Walmart . It is not a site I spend time on because it feels bad. Call me strange, but cringe humor that has more of th...

Sounds like an ad for www.eyeglasses.com, I know, but I just put lenses on a pair of rimless glasses AND a pair of rec specs (laugh if you m...

This is known as 'Ring Dance' by acrobatic troupe TRACES, currently in NYC. It's a single ring, permitting looser, faster trick...

So NPR ran a contest to see the most popular 100 Sci Fi and Fantasy books. 60K voters later, they had a list. Then they handed the reigns ...

These are the medals of the 2012 summer games. The left shows the front. The right shows the back. One of these things is not like the oth...

News out of Lionsgate is that they are making the perfect dose of semi-serious camp that is Dirty Dancing over again . I think the best we c...

So I have been seeing this sticker over and over and over all over the place. Turns out it is called the ' Thin Blue Line ' and repr...

Check out these two 'most popular' stories in the NYTimes yesterday: Friedman imagines what the debt ceiling deal could have looke...

Boeing delivered (not tested, flew, etc.) the first of its new aircraft , the 787 this week to Japanese carrier All Nippon Air, or ANA. H...

Diana Nyad is attempting the 103 mile swim from Havana to Key West. The waters are calm and she's in the water. She actually has to swi...

Standard and Poor's - they of the eponymous 500 - downgraded U.S. debt from AAA to AA+ on Friday . That means that U.S. borrowing could ...

The Keen Newport sandal. I bought the Keen Newport at Hudson Trail Outfitters just days before setting out on my honeymoon in the summer of ...

Danica Patrick could make the move full-time to the NASCAR Nationwide Series (this is the AAA ball of NASCAR, usually run the day before the...

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/02/138922339/under-pressure-soccer-goalies-tend-to-dive-right I don't know that I buy the explanation of why ...

Representatives Baca (CA 43), Hinchey (NY 22), and (WI 4) didn't vote on the Debt Ceiling bill. Just didn't vote. I mean, I am kinda...

I know I lost a lot of you with the NASCAR reference, but if you are still reading, you are in for a treat. In a typical NASCAR race, aroun...